Shah Rukh Khan has called him “the greatest actor of our times” and Tom Hanks admits that he was intimidated just to be in the same room. Director Danny Boyle compared watching him act in Slumdog Millionaire (2008) to observing the moves of a perfect athlete and director Wes Anderson wrote him into Darjeeling Limited (2007) just to say hello.
While many Bollywood stars chase the few coveted roles given to non-white actors, Khan prioritized his projects in Indian film. Khan turned down Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) to do Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox (2013) and a Steven Spielberg project because he thought the role lacked depth. Amid Bollywood’s commercialism and Hollywood’s token characters, Irrfan Khan managed to carve out a niche for himself with pure technical skill. In doing so, he enriched both industries and became a global star.
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